Post AucGA4OsHwaa4sr3mS by plsik@mastodon.social
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(DIR) Post #AucG07GiliSM4vIKuW by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-05-30T09:58:41Z
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I'm trying to remember the name of a SF book. It's less than ten years old. Fairly recent. It's about two planets that are very close together and on one planet there are these avarice driven capitalist monkey people. They have "dead technology" machines and guns. On the other planet are mer-lesbians who use biological living technology and all of their tech must account for the cost to the ecosystem to work.It was really good but can't remember the title.
(DIR) Post #AucG67BG0d7bXhbE2a by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-05-30T09:59:46Z
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I make it sound kind of one-sided but it's a very balanced story and the monkey people are likable and their motives understandable making the conflicts more interesting.
(DIR) Post #AucG8Mjn8iKyN3pGfQ by Scmbradley@mathstodon.xyz
2025-05-30T09:59:51Z
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@futurebird bookmarking this so I can come back later to see if you found the title...
(DIR) Post #AucGA4OsHwaa4sr3mS by plsik@mastodon.social
2025-05-30T10:00:26Z
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@futurebird It is a book by Ursula LeGuin, published here under the title The Outcast.
(DIR) Post #AucGCMywAnoGHqorho by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-05-30T10:00:54Z
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@plsik So it's older than I thought?
(DIR) Post #AucGEpSdGBsXBxsj5s by DrorBedrack@mastodon.social
2025-05-30T10:01:19Z
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@futurebird sort of sounds like "a door into ocean" by Joan Slonczewski
(DIR) Post #AucGL5w8uq1k1qflxY by hazelnot@sunbeam.city
2025-05-30T10:02:27Z
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@futurebird mer-lesbians 🥺
(DIR) Post #AucGOl3QUxjUQApIKO by plsik@mastodon.social
2025-05-30T10:03:07Z
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@futurebird LeGuin books are still being published, they're still good years later.
(DIR) Post #AucGo3CABiOpvKyPdg by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-05-30T10:07:43Z
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@DrorBedrack THATS IT thank you
(DIR) Post #AucGzE1UGqd0guJAi8 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-05-30T10:09:43Z
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@plsik You were correct that it was older than I thought... but I guess it's a genre? Turns out it's a 1986 novel by Joan Slonczewski
(DIR) Post #AucHN50vPxyThSQ6fg by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-05-30T10:14:02Z
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@Scmbradley I did!
(DIR) Post #AucHSlPvBv7aeup2VE by TheBreadmonkey@beige.party
2025-05-30T10:15:01Z
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@futurebirdLovely. That's going on the list.
(DIR) Post #AucKDs0ugNncdXiMvA by TimWardCam@c.im
2025-05-30T10:45:58Z
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@futurebird @plsik 1986 *is* "fairly recent" for SF. It's not Golden Age, it's not the hard SF of the 1970s, ect ect.
(DIR) Post #Aucb9Nxw9msFVUlnGK by gpilz@mastodon.social
2025-05-30T13:55:36Z
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@futurebird I have added "A Door Into Ocean" to my list of books to read. Thank you.
(DIR) Post #Aucpfd2l241gtXIGLA by clew@ecoevo.social
2025-05-30T16:13:51Z
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There’s a Karen Traviss series working with similar ideas; I think this is the first volume: "City of pearl" by Karen Traviss on WorldCat https://search.worldcat.org/title/54524886Not as balanced as _Door into…_ maybe but a lot of the story is driven by discovering the costs of the eco society. @futurebird
(DIR) Post #AudwnVTNxNsQZLPbaC by runoutgroover@mastodon.nz
2025-05-31T05:32:53Z
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@futurebird Just borrowed on Libby!